Veteran actor-director Clint Eastwood’s partner Christina Sandera has died at the age of 61. Christina was the 94-year-old actor’s partner for the past 10 years, reports mirror.co.uk.
Clint paid tribute to her in a statement, saying, “Christina was a loving, caring woman, and I will miss her very much.” A Warner Bros. spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter that no further information would be released. The private couple began dating shortly after Clint divorced his second wife, Dinah, after nearly 20 years of marriage.
According to mirror.co.uk, Christina and Clint kept their relationship out of the spotlight. They reportedly first met when she was working as a hostess at his Mission Ranch Hotel and Restaurant in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
They began dating in 2014. Although the couple has remained very private, Christina has supported Clint at several premieres and awards ceremonies. She made her red carpet debut with him at the Oscars in 2015, when his film ‘American Sniper’ was up for six gongs.
Clint is the father of eight children from six different women. His first marriage was to Maggie Neville Johnson, a manufacturing secretary turned fitness instructor, in 1953. While they were together, they had an “open relationship.” This relationship resulted in the birth of their daughter, Laurie. However, the mother put her up for adoption without Clint’s knowledge. Much later he found out that she had been adopted by a couple from Seattle.
A source close to Clint told MailOnline in 2018: “This all happened about 30 years ago. Laurie was very interested in finding out who her real parents were and she hired someone to help. When they got the papers, her biological mother had written down Clint Eastwood’s name.”
